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Can’t they ever do one thing without kissing the ass of big business? President Obama asks for some transparency of the chemicals used in fracking on America’s public lands and Republicans freak out, introduce a bill lickety split. Big oil starts filing law suits. [source] These are the same Republicans who can’t do anything else in a…

I cannot hold my tongue any longer. I’m going to wade into the mayhem that has been caused by the mess of a book Fifty Shades of Grey. But let’s be clear: I have not read it. Why? I have several reasons: Life is to short to read bad books and I heard this sucked.…

Last week the internet went bombastic because poor Miranda Larkin was forced to don her school’s solution to her dress code violation: a yellow t-shirt and maroon/red sweats with the words “dress code violation” ironed on them. [source] Goodness, you would have thought the Earth had started spinning in the opposite direction. Shouts of “humiliation”…

For weeks it seems like the news has been bad, bad, bad. War, famine, plagues. The news is filled with death and destruction and the loss of things that we love, care about, or need. Instead of bringing us together and making people nicer, it seems to be making some people meaner than ever. Seriously?! If…

Long ago a woman politician who was quite old told me that the women who fought for Roe v Wade were watching it being chipped away and didn’t think younger women were aware of what was happening. Guess what? We weren’t fighting hard enough and now we’re going to have to fight harder. Those women…

The way I understand it, the Hobby Lobby case, was a test of how far Obamacare can go. The right is angry that women’s coverage should be covered at all. That includes mammograms, pap smears, pregnancy, childbirth, etc. because men don’t need those things so why should men have to pay for them. Then add…

It was a weird week media-wise. Pretty much the same story was repeated, just with different characters and different settings. Like a Danielle Steel novel. Time and again, someone in the public eye said something that got them into trouble with the public. (I can only hope that they came to regret their comments.) Imagine that. It’s…

Tuesday was a bad day for me. It started out fine. But as the day went on and the emails came in about the hearing before the Supreme Court–Sebelius v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (there’s also Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp. v. Sebelius being heard at the same time)–and I grew angrier and angrier. My initial anger…

At a North Carolina elementary school, a young boy is bullied for bringing a My Little Pony backpack. The solution? School officials ban the backpack. And the internet goes nuts! The boy and his mother were on the news. The mother decided to home school. The latest news is that the school is re-thinking their…

Poor Rachel Canning didn’t like the rules at her parents house. So she moved out. Now she’s suing them for her college tuition to be paid in full. You know, because she’s a spoiled ass American Princess! [source] I don’t even know where to begin… Let’s start with the idea that parents owe their children…